CLAY by ALICE TOPP Digital Premiere | | The Australian Ballet

Watch the digital premiere of Alice Topp’s Clay, featuring dancers Karen Nanasca and Nathan Brook. Subscribe for more original content: About CLAY In 2019, Alice Topp choreographed a duet, Clay, on London’s Company Wayne McGregor. It was performed at the Dance@TheGrange festival that year. In 2020, that duet became part of Topp’s one-act ballet Logos, one of the works danced by The Australian Ballet in its final performance before the COVID pandemic forced the closure of theatres. Of Logos, Topp said, ‘How do you wear your monsters? When do you start to wear another’s monsters as your own? Life can feel full of modern demons and pressures. Sometimes it becomes a dance with your devils of grief, a wrestle with pain, a bargaining with your beasts of fear. The storm around us drowns us, and before we know it, we have lost ourselves, engulfed in the whirling turbulence … How can our fears be so great that our only solution is to turn on ourselves and each other? In these times, isn’t hope